The Thinning of the Veil

The Thinning of the Veil

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"'You Are My Darling Even Though You Know My Sister.'" -- Larry, age 8

"'I Am In Love With You Most of the Time, But Don't Bother Me When I'm With My Friends.'" -- Bob, age 9

"'How Do I Love Thee When You're Always Picking Your Nose?'" -- Arnold, age 10

"'Honey, I Got Your Curly Hair and Your Nintendo On My Mind.'" -- Sharon, age 9

"'Hey, Baby, I Don't Like Girls, But I'm Willing To Forget You Are One!'" -- Will, age 7

We are NOT mortal beings having spiritual experiences.

We are Spiritual Beings having a mortal experience…

Reminder:

Moroni 7:21 And now I come to that faith, of

which I said I would speak; and I will tell you the way whereby ye may lay hold on every good thing.

22 For behold, God knowing all things…he sent angels to minister unto the children of men, to make manifest concerning the coming of Christ; and in Christ there should come every good thing.

25 Wherefore, by the ministering of angels, and by every word which proceeded forth out of the mouth of God, men began to exercise faith in Christ;

and thus by faith, they did lay hold upon every good thing; and thus it was until the coming of Christ.

Every Good Thing

Elder Holland The other morning I was listening to the news

…On one of the shows an author who had just written a book about belief in God was being interviewed. He was being questioned about whether he personally believed in God.

The author answered with something like this. He said, “… I have no idea whether there is a God, but I do know that religion has gotten a bad name from people who do things like worship cactus and believe in angels.”

That was it. That was his whole response. He didn’t know whether he believed in God or not, but believing in angels was clearly equal to worshipping cactus.

May I suggest to you that one of the things we need to teach our [children], and one of the things which will become more important in their lives the longer they live, is the reality of angels, their work, and their ministry.

Obviously I speak here not alone of the angel Moroni, but also of those more personal ministering angels who are with us and around us, empowered to help us, and who do exactly that.

Perhaps more of us… could literally, or at least figuratively, behold the angels around us if we would but awaken from our stupor and hear the voice of the Spirit as those angels try to speak.

CES Symposium on the Book of Mormon • 9 August 1994

Great Blessings2 Nephi 31: 14After ye have repented of

your sins, and witnessed unto the

Father that ye are willing to keep my commandments, by the baptism of water,

and have received the baptism of fire and of the Holy Ghost,

and can speak with a new tongue, yea, even with the tongue of angels

What does it mean that the Aaronic Priesthood holds “The key of the ministering of angels” and of the “gospel of repentance and of baptism, and the remission of sins”?

The meaning is found in the ordinance of baptism and in the sacrament. Baptism is for the remission of sins, and the sacrament is a renewal of the covenants and blessings of baptism. …

When we keep the covenants made in these ordinances, we are promised that we will always have His Spirit to be with us.

The ministering of angels is one of the manifestations of that Spirit. (Elder Dallin H. Oaks, Ensign, November 1998, p 37-38)

Elder Dallin Oaks

Last 30 Months of his lifeApril 1916

In the Presence of the DivineFeb 1918

The Status of Children in the Resurrection

Oct 3rd

The Vision (D&C 138)Oct 4th

Friday General ConferenceNov 19th, 1918

He diesNov 30th

‘The Vision’ printed in the Deseret news.

Joseph F. SmithI have not lived alone these last five months. I have dwelt in the spirit of prayer, of supplication, of faith and of determination;And I have had my communication with the spirit of the Lord continuously.

Joseph F. Smith…when messengers are sent to

minister to the inhabitants of this earth, they are not strangers, but from the ranks of our kindred, friends, and fellow-beings and fellow-servants...

Our fathers and mothers, brothers, sisters and friends who have passed away from this earth, having been faithful, and worthy to enjoy these rights and privileges,

may have a mission given them to visit their relatives and friends upon the earth again, from the divine Presence messages of love, of warning, or reproof and instruction, to those whom they had learned to love in the flesh.” (Gospel Principles, p. 435)

Abusive Situation….

Anna

If we live our holy religion and let the Spirit reign, the mind of man will not become dull and stupid,

But as the body approaches dissolution the spirit takes a firmer hold on the enduring substance behind the veil,

drawing from the depths of that eternal Fountain of Light sparkling gems of intelligence which surround the frail and sinking tabernacle with a halo of immortal wisdom. JD, 9:288

Brigham Young

Does the church believe in ‘guardian angels?’

Question

Matthew 10And whoso shall

receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

But whoso shall offend one of these littleones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone werehanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you,

That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

Question

I do not expect the day to come when this people will be favored with the administration of angels—with the presence of those holy and immortal beings—until we can learn to appreciate the teachings and instructions of the men of God in our midst.

When that day does come that this people will implicitly obey the voice of those whom God had placed over them and give heed to every instruction imparted to them by the spirit of revelation through the servants of God,

then I shall expect visits from holy angels and the glory and power of God to rest upon us to that extent it has never done hitherto; but I cannot well expect it before that time arrives;

if these blessings were to be bestowed upon us before we are prepared to receive them, I should fear they would turn to our condemnation as they have done to many in the early history of this Church. ( JD 11:30-31)

George Q. Cannon